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Take a Virtual Tour of a Million Previously Undiscovered Galaxies – The Wire Science
Researchers have spotted millions of galaxies in the most detailed radio survey of the southern sky ever conducted. It has smashed previous records for survey speed….
With the RACS survey, 903 images were produced, each requiring 15 minutes of exposure time, and then combined into one map covering the entire area. Photo: CSIRO, Author provided
Astronomers have mapped about a million previously undiscovered galaxies beyond the Milky Way, in the most detailed survey of the southern sky ever carried out using radio waves.
The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (or RACS) has placed the CSIROs Australian SKA Pathfinder radio telescope (ASKAP) firmly on the international…
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